1. His monstrousness consists really in casual cruelties of an everyday sort.
他的畸形古怪仅仅是由日常生活中偶然的残酷行为带来的。
2. Bacon has been a major ruthless spreader of the Twentieth Century, giving visible form to monsters, to the anxieties, the monstrousness and disturbances not only of an entire era, but also of all humanity and amplifying the power to defile the mind, the infectivity through painting.
那时候人们普遍认为培根并不经常作素描画，即使偶有创作他也会随即将他们销毁。这样的观点其实并不完全正确。因为这些素描作品看起来仅是培根艺术世界的一小部分，如同培根艺术批评家David Sylvester为它们所下的定义：冰山一角。